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Social media posts are sharing a video of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressing the United Nations in September and using it to justify a baseless conspiracy theory about a plan by global elites to control the population and bypass democracy using the Covid-19 pandemic as an excuse. While the video is authentic, Trudeau is referring to well known, non-binding international initiatives to address global challenges accentuated by the pandemic.
This shit is not Conspiracy theory anymore... This is happening!!! Our country has been sold to the globalists agenda, Trudeau has just announced it to everyone, a Facebook post claims.
Similar posts have been shared thousands of times across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, where a user wrote: That is happening right now, as democracy will be bypassed due to Covid-19. This pandemic has been orchestrated for decades only to implement the new world order.
The claim, which gained traction on November 15, 2020, was quickly amplified across Twitter by conservative political commentators including Maxime Bernier, leader of the libertarian Peoples Party of Canada, Ezra Levants Rebel News, Spencer Fernando and US radio and TV host Glenn Beck.
We want our lives to get back to normal
Instead they offer only more fear, more control, more centralization, and a reshaping of our lives and our economy without even asking us, Fernando wrote in a blog post.
This conspiracy theory resurfaced with rising Covid-19 cases and harsher restrictions in some provinces of Canada, which recorded more than 311,000 cases and more than 11,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
The full video of Trudeaus September 29, 2020 address to the United Nations, on which many of these posts are based, can be found here.
In one segment Trudeau says, This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts, to reimagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change.
The Great Reset is a formal initiative from Prince Charles and the World Economic Forum (WEF), a Swiss-based foundation that organizes an annual forum for political and economic leaders in Davos.
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(23,862 posts)They don't want the Free World to focus their united attention on their gangster state.
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(1,601 posts)Davos, global elites led by Canadians, George Soros, English Royalty, the UN, the WEF ... all of the conservative trigger points. This should be interesting.